7/8/2023 0 Comments There there by tommy orange![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The leap to writing seemed like a natural progression for Orange. "And I wasn't a reader, so fiction was a super novel thing for me, and the novel itself was. ![]() "I was in my 20s and also searching for meaning," he says. But after graduating from college with a degree in sound engineering, he couldn't find work, so he got a job at bookstore where he developed a passion for reading. As a kid, Orange wasn't much of a reader. Orange's mother is white, and his father is Cheyenne. Set in Oakland, Calif., it explores the lives of Native Americans who live in cities, not reservations - lives like that of its author, who himself grew up in Oakland. This year, There There by Tommy Orange is one of those books. He says, "I wanted to represent a range of human experience as a way to humanize Native people."Įvery year at BookExpo, the publishing industry's annual conference, a few books emerge as front-runners in the competition for readers. Tommy Orange's debut novel features a wide cast of characters who are all Native American, with varying degrees of connection to the culture. ![]()
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